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The poker world was shocked by the news that during a rafting trip in Oregon with some close friends, poker superstar Phil Laak suffered major injuries including broken bones in his wrist and elbow, as well as facial lacerations, when he crashed his ATV on Thursday.  
Laak was treated at a local hospital and is recovering [...]

With the first 10 of the 57 scheduled tournaments completed I decided to take a look at the 10 winners thus far, and offer up some statistics on the first 10 tournaments.

Let me begin this article with a brief explanation of data-mining: Data-mining is basically statistics on a player that you gather without personally being involved in the game. Data-mining encompasses everything from looking up a breakdown of a player’s results to purchasing a large database of hand histories.
What data-mining sites do is put together detailed [...]

The 2010 World Series of Poker is almost upon us -the first tournament takes place May 27th. Below you will find the complete schedule for all 57 poker tournaments that will be played at this year’s WSOP.

The analysis program and the poker tracking Holdem Manager announced a 30-day trial of Table Ninja that will start on January 20, 2010.
Table Ninja is consists of hotkeys that poker players can use for them to play more effectively that has a lot of shortcuts. Poker players from PokerStars can enjoy playing with shortcuts for [...]

The Tournament
The tournament is the ECPokerTour Malta event. The ECPokerTour is an up and coming tournament tour in the poker world that promises to do big things in the future. It is a tournament that appeals to many and the Malta event in particular is one of the more popular ones. With its easy to [...]

It’s been quite a start to this year’s WSOP.
$40k Tournament
Another big tournament means another win for a Russian player. This time it was Vitaly Lunkin taking home nearly $1.9 million and the honor that goes with winning the largest buy-in Hold’ Em tournament in WSOP history.

The commissioner of the World Series of Poker commissioner said Tuesday that he thinks that cardplayer Annie Duke’s presence on reality show “Celebrity Apprentice” will be good for the game, despite repeated insults thrown at Duke and the profession by Joan Rivers.
Commissioner Jeffrey Pollack mentioned Rivers’ name unexpectedly during a news conference when a reporter [...]

Vanessa Rousso, who was the center of attention in the poker industry earlier this year when she appeared in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue, is now joining ranks with Indy Car star, Danica Patrick as the newest spokes model for domain name registrar, GoDaddy.com.  Rousso is now filming commercials for GoDaddy with Patrick and the [...]

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